While the original chopstick hack led to a splintered mess, one real genius was hard at work creating a pair of chopsticks that actually break off at the ends, creating a sleek and simple utensil holder.

CropsticksThe Cropstick prototype featured above was made from a 3-D printed material. The real ones will be made of 100 percent bamboo.

The idea for these new chopsticks came to Mylen Fe Yamamoto in April 2015 -- nearly a year before the chopstick hack went viral -- after she noticed that her chopsticks kept rolling off her tray during a flight to Asia.

Frustrated with sticks that would not stay still, Yamamoto designed a pair with a crescent-shaped tip which, unlike the fake hack, would break off cleanly from the sticks and act as a holder.

She was forced to publish her patent-pending prototype on Kickstarter earlier than scheduled after seeing the "mind-blowing chopstick trick" flood the Internet in February -- but the timing turned out to be perfect.

CropsticksA batch of freshly-cut Cropsticks. You can almost smell the convenience.

While the Cropsticks' holder isn't a totally new concept -- people have been making make-shift stands out of paper wrappers for a long time and you can buy reusable chopstick rests on Amazon for $1 -- it does make for a super convenient and surprisingly simple utensil.